Canadian Mining Tramples Human Rights

[bush_cheney2004]

Human rights and environmental protection doesn't apply so far away from home. Thar's MINERALS in them thar hills!

Here's a good rationalization:

"If it becomes too onerous for Canadian companies to operate in developing countries, they'll leave," said Erin Airton of Vancouver's Platinum Group Metals, which has mines in South Africa and Mexico. "Then someone else will take the minerals."

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14379

Made In Canada: Violence & Displacement

The devastation and violence perpetrated by Canadian mining corporations has been documented clearly with links to human rights violations in Guatemala, Peru, Romania, the Philippines, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ghana, Suriname, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, India, Indonesia, Zambia and Sudan.

http://www.seinforma.ca/latinamerica.html

[kuzadd]

Bush Cheney, it all about the 'war on terror" and "islamofascism" and good vs bad.

You really think a rational story is going to garner interest?

Not sensational enough! Not rhetorical enough!

No labelling, or promoting of stereotypes, generalizations and smears?

Of course it's about the resources, it always is!

[myata]

We have laws to prosecute child sex tourism. And a few days ago there's been a lot of the noise to take in a military officer (from Bangladesh?) because he could be extradited and judged in less than 100% absolutely perfect conditions. Why isn't the same standard being applied to Canadian companies operating abroad? Could it be ... the money?